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Leghorn, arrived at Frederiekshafen, where her Majesty the Queen has been ever since the 2d. Their Majesties intend to pass some weeks at their country-seat with their family. DRESDEN, JULY 8. The Commissioners appointed by his Majesty the King of Saxony to regulate the succession to the Duchies of Gothai and Allinburg, as well as the Envoys from Saxe -IVlennengen and Saxe-Cobourg, have been assembled for this week past at Hildburghausen. _ HANOVER, JULY 8. A Committee for the relief of the Greeks has now been formed in this city, and has caused an address to be in serted in the Journal called the Hanoversehe Nashrechlen. FRANKFORT, JULY 11. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, travelling under the name of Count and Countess of Munster, with a numerous suite, arrived here to-day, and put . u p a t th e Weid en h o f, here every thing was ready prepared for their reception. A Jamaica Mail has arrived this morning, brought to Falmouth by his Majesty's Packet brig Plover, by which letters have been received from Carthagena to the 31st of May ; and Jamaica letters and papers to 14th June. The following are extracts from the Jamaica Royal Gazette, of the 10th of June, received at the North and South American Coffee-house REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA. INTENDANT OF VENEZUELA. Caraccas, Feb. 7. SIR—I have the honour to acquaint your Excellency that no thing further of consequence has happened which can disturb the order and tranquillity of the territory, or the personal security or property of the inhabitants. The disturbances which happened in Valencia on the 80th of April, and which have been reported every where, have for their object the continuation of General Paez in the command of - this Department, until the arrival of the Liberator President, whose mediation and advice are earnestly de sired to adjust these domestic differences, and to promote such re form as may be useful in our internal administration, without af fecting in any manner our internal relations, or altering the na tional integrity of the Republic. I have just been officially assured of this from his Excellency General Marino, who arrived last night from head-quarters; and this assurance obliges me to con tinue my services to the Republic, in the trust confided to me by its Government. I have the honour to be CHRISTOBAL MENDOZA. To his Excellency R. K. Porter, Esq. Consul of his Britannic Majesty. DECREE. BOGOTA, MAT 4. ARTICLE 2.—The subjects which will occupy exclusively the attention of Congress during the extraordinary session are the dis. cussion and approbation of the bill now pending for the consolida tion of public credit, and that for the patriotic contribution or sub.. sidy in aid of the said public credit. • ARTICLE 3.—lf, when the Congress terminates its arduous session, the bill on Public Credit should have passed, the bill on Registers and 'Mortgages will then be taken into consideration, and, as the Chambers, may have some leisure moments until the two bills spoken of in the preceding Articles'are returned by the executive, with its approbation or objections, the Congress may, during that time, continue the discussion of the Penal Code. 4.;---The sanction of the executive being given to the bills spoken of in the tld, and begiAning of the 3d Articles of this Decree, Congress will close the extraordinary session for which it is now convoked. ." SANTANDER. Palace of Bogota, May 1. We learn from an Officer of the Druid, just arrived from Port-au-Prince, that President Boyer was not so popular as was expected in England, owing to his anxiety to pay off the sum due to the French Government, which the Medae frigate was Waiting for to receive ; there appeared to exist three parties at Port-au-Prince, the French and Americans at present monopolize the trade of the Island. From the Bogota Papers, May 18. - _ Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and Chambers of Representa tives.—The honour and credit of the Republic have induced me to convoke you extraordinarily, in virtue of one of the funda , mental articles of the Constitution, at the close of your ordinary Session ; the Executive received, the diaagreeable ,intelligence, that it could not dispose of the funds with which it had intended to pay the interest due on the foreign debt, and provide for the gra dual extinction of the capital. The Executive Government ex pressed kvell grounded hopes that the successive improvement of the Finances, and the reduction which would be made in the public expenditure in the War Department, would have means sufficient to meet the pecuniary engagements of the Republic, without its being necessary to burthen the people with fresh contributions; but U t h e improvement of the Revenue is not the work of a moment, nor would it be prudent in our present state to diminish the army, the Executive have appropriated a part of what was owing by Peru,for the payment of the interest of the foreign debt, during the present year. The Government of Peru, determined to negociate a loan in Europe to facilitate the reimbursement of the debt it had con tracted with the Republic of Colombia, but, from circumstances Which were not within its control, the negociation was not ef fected in consequence of this unexpected occurrence. The Exe cutive see„ itself surrounded with serious difficulties, which you nlnne, front the nature of your functions, are able to remove, the honour of the nation being deeply involved, and our public faith b eing compromised. I have judged it absolutely necessary to Convoke Congress to an extraordinary Session. The conclusion of the law, the consolida tion of the public credit, and that which the Chamber of Repre sentatives has begun to discuss relative .to the extraordinary con tribution in aid of public credit, are the subjects to which you will confine your legislative labour. Without those laws, Co lombia would lose in the opinion of foreign countries, and the credit of the nation would sink, and perhapa the enemies of our in dependence would think to find in such a state of things a most favourable opportunity to push forward their hostile designs against Amerlan freedom. On the contrary, by the sanction of these two important laws, the Colombian people will receive protec tion and encouragement , and the nation's credit be raised to its proper level ; friendly nations will he confirmed in the advan tageous opinion they have formed of Colombia, and Neutral States will receive fresh proof of our moral and political capability. I believe you to be animated with these generous feelings for the welfare and honour of the Colombian people, and I am led to be heve that your deliberations will not disappoint their expectations. The Exerutive,— o from an anxi ous w i s h that the pportunity ofthe present ex t raor di nary S ess i on should not be lost, and court (lering that between the discussions and approbation of the above two laws, proscribed by the Constitution, you may have some mo inenn, of leisure, which it may not be prudent to leave ui Ployed,--has thought p roper to authorise e you to continue thelefildis cussion on the Penal Code. SANTANDER. , lamatea, MaY 12.--The Xspei mfe le. Is women h brig of war ta - rily espoused. here fr om Cl gress of Pana ma b y her; when tl Is4s o steT it hear had of no t t he ye? as-u -sembled. Mr. D aw ki ns, the Brietish r Ministe r , h Panama, and the A mer i can Minititt was on ' boat arrived e iv J ed oh a n t tween *loisCarthagena United Sta end C rag, which ' w as spok en by the. Isis be es. Tbe Jamaica Wpm; of the 7th June lntae intio2aidlye of E. W a tt s , 1 the ar r i va l i n the pucka from Cartha gena i n fi ve days of t`in Esq., British Consul at C art h agena, and r Co c kb urn , Alexander Bsq„' British Ambassador to Colombia, as shows tho alarm and fear entertained for the P"pragiuders. This individuals; but the arrival of Mr. Coekburn, a nK) yu e --- at saf tr i e h t L Q , d f to the state of his health, which had been very. precarious for some time. A Morning Paper, of Monday last, has made some remarks upon that provision of Mr. PEEL'S new Act, Which permits two Magistrates to admit persons to bail in cases of felony, where a reasonable doubt of the truth of the charge appears. It then proceeds to argue %slut the propriety of allowing the forfeiture of the hail bond to operate as an " extinguishment of the offence," and to excuse the party charged from all future liability to answer the accusation that has been made against him. There cannot be a greater error than this, and we are surprised that any one at this time of day should entertain a notion so utterly subversive of justice, and so entirely at variance with the law. The fact is, the bail bond is forfeited by the Circumstanc e that the party has not fulfilled its litiptilatious, viz., that he should be, and appear before the Justices of our Lord the King at such a day and place, to do and receive all things that then and there should be required of him ; and amongst these things to answer the charge in question. How then can it be supposed that the forfeiture of the bail bond would clear the party of the charge ? It is, as the Journal in question says it ought to be, an aggra- vation of the original offence, and is visited with con dign punishment, by levying the penalty of the bond on the goods and chatteLs of the offender ; and then issu ing a warrant for his caption to appear and answer the the charge, and to undergo the punishment assigned in case he is convicted. It seems, however, that this Journal has confounded two things which are perfectly distinct, viz., the bail bond given by the prisoner and his bail, and the recognizance entered into by the prosecutors and witnesses to appear and give evidence. It must be confessed, that if the prosecutor and wit nesses chose to forfeit their recognizances, and fail to appear and give evidence against the prisoner, he must of necessity be acquitted, and this acquittal may be pleaded in bar to any future prosecution for the same offence. The effect of the law, but not the law, is therefore to purge the prisoner of the crime, by the payment to the King of a certain sum of money; sel dom, if ever, so much as the penalty for a breach of the bail bond, and that paid not (legally speaking) by the prisoner, but by the prosecutor and witnesses themselves, who, if the charge against the prisoner is untrue, have been rightly and properly amerced pro falso clamore suo. How this defect, if it can be called so, is •to be remedied, we are at a loss to know, for we are not aware of any means for the prevention of this crime than those already known to the law. To compound a fe lony, called in our ancient law books theft tote, is in tome cases a felony, and in some a misdemeanour, so that those prosecutors and witnesses who neglect to the terms of their recognizances, might be in dicted for compounding, the felony ; and the very cir cumstance of their non-appearance, in pursuance of their recognizances, would be evidence of a corrupt agreement with the prisoner, unless satisfactorily ex plained by rebutting testimony. In our eyes the law in this instance is sufficiently strong; and cannot, therefore, need amendment. As to the proposition of allowing . the deposit of a sum of money in lieu of bail, in criminal cases, we must take leave at once to doubt the good sense and propriety of such a measure. It is undoubtedly true, that the main object of a bail bond is to insure the appearance of the accused to take his trial. But we submit, that in admitting persons charged with offences to bail, the law goes on two grounds; relying first and chiefly, on the respectability of the bail, who would not, it might be very fairly presumed, consent to become bail for a person accused of felony, unless they supposed him innocent, and anxious to clear his character from the reproach the accusation has cast upon it; and secondly, on the ground that neither the accused or his bail would willingly submit to lose the amount of the penalty of the bail bond. In the first of these grounds there is a very strong and a very powerful moral restraint placed upon persons who are about to offer themselves as, bail, and which is entirely lost if the deposit of a, sum of money in lieu of bail were allowed ; besides, a person with any sense of honour would feel much more repugnance against running away from his bail, although he might have indemni fied them, than in merely abandoning a sum of money that he has deposited to answer for his appearance.— But furthermore, it is to be remarked, that if persons, however really innocent they may be, place them selves, by their conduct and their characters, in such suspicious relation to any crime that has been com mitted, as to justify a committal by the Justice of Peace, they have no right to complain that they have been kept in confinement, upon a charge of which they were subse quent l y acqu i tte d. I t is oily the pe nalty they pay for such obliquity of conduct, and . which it is not too much to say they fully merit. In con clusion, we may add, that we think the law has been stretched to its utmost limits in Mr. PEEL'S new act, by the permission there given to bail in doubtful charges of felony; said confess that, though friends to the liberty of the subject, we should be sorry to see any new door opened for the escape of influential criminals, so as to give occasion for any further such charge that the law of England commutes felonies for a pecuniary fine. Letters from Manchester, to a late hour on Mon day night, bring no fresh accounts of tumultuous meetings, or riotous conduct on the part of the unem ployed poor. The infamous attempts of some design ing persons to inflame the minds of the manufacturers, appear entirely to have failed, and the good sense of the people generally, will, we hope, prevail over the endeavours of the unprincipled to instigate them to acts of riot, or to excite feelings of enmity against the Government, in the minds of those whose only real complaint arises from the cravings of nature. The House of Assembly, at Jamaica, was dissolved on the 12th of June, and the new House was expected to be called together about the 20th of July. A considerable addition has been made to the naval force of Colombia, by the arrival at Carthagena on the of a beautiful an d power f u l f rigate, named from New York i n 18 d ays . La 24 thpMia Plata, M a y, whi c h state that a Message had Private letters have be en received in town from Bogota, b da ee te n d se th n to C e t 19thongress, recommending that all the specie they could collect at the Custom House and Mint, should be shipped immediately for England, to pay the dividend. The United States papers complain of an unusual difficulty in procuring seamen, either for the naval ser vice or for merchant shipping. A public meeting was to be held at New York, last month, consisting of the most resp ect able citizens in that place, and of British residents there, 4 , to devise some means, or adopt some measures , for the relief, if P r acticable," of the distressed manufacturers in England. withdraw dom, directing them to' Circular s h ave b een sen t to the Surveyors of Taxes throu g h out t h e kin g om, .all ch arges made on persons keeping wheels o f less diameter than 30 carriages with in ches, and drawn by . poni es or mules not exceeding 12 hands in height, or drawn by o xen or asses, exce let to hire. A P t where conveyan ce o f the kind " drawn by oxen,' ' wo uld be, we imail t -, rather a no ve lty even to a tax gatuerer. AFFAIR OP T•T --oNoun.---On Friday morning last a me.et ing took place on th e Sands, near the Figgate , Whins, be tween Lieut. M.:-..... ' an officer on half pay, r esiding at Portobello, and M r , ......_ by of thi s c ity. 'The parties fired signal. Lieut. M----'s pist o l did no t go off, and the seconds having int er f ered, the matter terminated. This affair arose in consequence of a dispute between the parties on the preceding eveninff, regardin g the frequent and im proper wanner in which Mr. had galloped past Lieut. M--.. and a party of ladies Tiwo were. walking on the beach at Portobello.—.Edinhrgh Courant,• THE FUNDS. CITY, Twelve o' Clock. Consols opened this morning at 77 it, and advanced to 7* This being a holiday, little business up to the present hour has been transacted. In the Foreign Funds considerable interest has been exhibited in Colombian and Mexican Stock, in consequence of the arrival of the Mail from Jamaica, by which advises have been re ceived from Bogota of a favourable nature, and have caused the Co lombian Securities to advance from 28i to 31 ; they have since receded to 301, the present price; Mexican, from 451 f, also have been done at 471, and are now 47. Three per Cent. C , onsols, 771; Ditto for Acourit, 78i 1; India 4 per Cent. Bonds, 15 17 plu. ; Exchequer Bills, 1011 pm. Foam?? FUNDS. --Brazilia n , 52 4 ; B ueno i Ayres, 48 50; Chilian, 31 3 ; Colombi an , 1822, 264 74; Ditto, 1824, 2 84 9 ; Greek, 11 12 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 38 40 ; Ditto, 6 per Cent-, 451; Peruvian, 23 5 ; Russian, soi MxNEs.—Anglo Mexican, 421 371 dis. ; United do. 84 '7l dia. ; Brazilian, 14 24 pm. ; Colombian, 2 4, per share; Tlal puxahua, 10 dis. par. ; Pasco Peruvian, 10 9 die. Slid/M.—British Iron Company, 28 6, dis ; Welch Iron and Coal, 18 16, dis. Two o'clock. Consols have advanced to 77i +, being a shade higher ; and for the Account the same price, there being scarcely any variation ; 4 per Cents. are 92 3 ; New 4 per Cent., 93i ; Exchequer Bills, 11 12 pin. ; India St oc k, 227 8; Ball( Stock, 198 9. Mexican Securities have continued to rise, and have been done as high as 47 48. Colombian 6 per Cents. have also advanced, and transactions in them have been effected at 33f 34. This sudden rise in the two above Securities is owing to a report that private letters are in town from Carthagena, stating that four hundred thousand dollars are shipped on board the Lyon cutter, which was waiting for 200,000 more to sail for England on account of the Colombian dividend. Another report prevails that Monte Video has surrendered. The chief attention of tne dealers seems directed to the Bonds of the Mexican and Colombian Governments. In the other Foreign loans, the premium, particularly in the Russian, is ex tremely steady and firm. THREE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Consols, have been 77-1, buyers, are now 771 I; 6 per Cent. Mexican, 46,1 7; Ditto, Colombian, 311 2. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. By his Majesty's packet brig Plover, arrived at Falmouth, ac counts of the squadron at Jamaica to a late date have been re ceived. Nothing particular, however, bad occurred. The Isis, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir L. W. Halsted, was lying at Port Royal, with the Magnificent, Pylades, and Valorous. Mr. James Morrice, Acting Master of the Pylades, died of apoplexy on the 20th May. Letters have been received from the Mersey at Chorillos Bay on 9th December last. Mr. Philip Hoste has been confirmed as Lieutenant of the Pylades. LLOYD'S.—(Tms DAY. ) FALMOUTH, JULY. 17.—Variable, light winds.—Arrived the Plover packet, from Jamaica, sailed 13th June; and from Crooked Island 21st ; Diamond, Fowell, from Jersey. Sailed the Betsey, Johns, for Genoa. PLYMOUTiI, JULY 17.—.-Wind W.—Arrived the Hopewell, Dobson, from Alinimichi ; Elizabeth, Gusell, from Pictou; Ann, Brown, from Hamburgh • and the Warren s , Bli ss , f rom L on d on ; for the South Seas, with loss of topmast. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 18.—Wind W.---Arrived the Phoenix, Anderson, from London, for Dublin and New South Wales, with foremast sprung ; and his Majesty's ship Raleigh, from Chatham. Sailed the James, Walter, for Quebec ; Jupiter Transport, for Dublin and Gibraltar ; Diligence, Naval Transport, for Malta; St. Andrews, Deeper, for Sierra Leone; passed by from the Downs, the Madras, Beach, for Bengal ; Lady Kennaway, for Bengal; Princess Amelia, for China; and the Daniel, Sarbute, for the South Seas; the Triton, Marshall, for Aliraraichi, lots gone to Cowes to be docked. DEAL, JULY 18.—Wind variable.—Arrived and sailed for the river, the Friends, Holland, from Jamaica ; sailed the Winchelasa, Everett, foi China. MANCHESTER, JULY l7.—Since Saturday night nothing of a serious nature has occurred relative to popular move ments. Yesterday and to-day there have been groupes of people in the streets contiguous to the New-cross and Oldham-road, but their conduct has been quite peaceable. I think their night march upon Middl e t on w ill h ave g i ven them enough of campaigning. The attempt was puerile and despicable, however the authorities may represent it; but make the most_ of it they can, it was merely a hungry mob going forth to plunder for bread. It is lamentable that men should he Induced by extreme necessity to seek such a-course of relief. BANK NOTES. The Gazette of last night contains the following account, pub limbed in pursuance of an act of last Session : An Account of the Total Number of Notes of the Governor and Com pany of the Bank of England, under the value of Five Pounds, which has been issued during each and every week from the 12th of June, 1826, until Saturday preceding the 15th of July, 1826 ; and a l so th e Total Amount of Notes, under the value of Five Pounds, actually in circulation at the close of business on every such Saturday, pursuant • to Act 7th Geo. IV, cap. 6. Number of AmoUnt in Circula.. Notes of lion of Notes under U. Issued, the value of K. I From June Ig to Junel7, both inclusive 11,750 tune 17.. £1,385,603 From June 19 to Julien, both inclusive 16,450 !June U.... 1.351,834 From June 26 to July 1, both inclusive 65,800 July 1.... 1,361,613 From July 3to July 9, both Inclusive 10000 July 8.... 1,35E1,806 N.B. No other Notes under the value of 54 have been issued. Bank of England, July 15, 1826. (Signed) WM. DAWES. Acct.-General. Published in obedience to the provisions of Act 7, Geo. IV., cap. 6. By command of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, Whitehall, H Treasury-chamb ers , J u l y 1 7. 1 826 . J. C. EBEI ES. DISTRESSING CATASTROPHE. Batowrow, Jure 17.—The Chain Pia has this morning bad many visitors, including divers families in high life, owing to the beauty of the weather, and its b e i ng k nown t h at t h e Lif e Pre serving Apparatus of Captain Manby would be tried at its outer extremity. The great object of this apparatus is to convey a rope, by means of a ball, to which it is fixed, fired from a mor tar, to a given point. It hes been used about this line of coast, ini repeated instances, with the desired effect. This morning, the bell, with a rope attached, was discharged from the mortar, but in almost every trial the rope was snapped in twain, and the de sign for which it was so propelled frustrated. These disappoint ments gave rise to a suggestion, that a chain should be connected with the ball, and the rope with the chain, to ensure success, and the suggestion was immediately acted upon. No danger was anticipated, and the crowd at the southern head of the pier be came more dense. The mortar, at length, was again dis c h arge d hut the chain, not three yards in length, was severed by it, within two links of the rope, and was whirled through the air in a zig zag course, while the rope, with a brace of links attacked to it, recoiled. The latter struck a fine boy about' nine years of age, named Bedford, (whose father we understand to be a solicitor of Bedford-plarn, Holborn, and who, with his family, has occupied a house, No. 14, New fiteyne, for some time past,) on the lower part of the face and on the neck, literally smashing the under jaw, dividing the carotid and jugular arteries, and destroying him on the spot.. A gentleman was struck by the rope, or chain, at the same tune, which tore his clothe*, and lacerated his breast. A third person, a boy, had his hat whisked off by it, but he escaped unhurt. I shall not attempt to describe the confusion and the die- tress which the fate . of the poor little fellow occasioned on the pier ; his disfigured remains presented a most ghastly appearance, and many ladies were supported from the platform in a fainting state. The unfortunate boy could have suffered nothing—he was kneeling at the end of the pier, on the seat, and peeping through the, fence there, to notice what was going, forward, when the fatal shot was fired—he fell instantly on the stone platform, with out a sigh or a struggl e ; and those nearest to him did not know what had occurred for the spat* of half-a-minute. The mutilated remains were borne to the White Horse luu, there to await the Coroner's inquisition and verdict. COIN-EXCHANGE•--(Tats DAY). The supply hitherto is moderate; the quanity of English Oats is rather larger than o f l ate . There is little business doing, and prices may be stated the same as on Monday. 'Meat. Barley'. l iti ll VA si l e ,04 . 14. Beane. I Pcam, Flour. rtglish.•—•• ' k'rl 3 o/0 iz. tz...s. 'osoir , Qr;. — QI s. 'tsticii Irish ......... .-- ...... 1 _—• q§4 -- ...... ....... Forfirign•gus. 4 3 0 . 50 ... 1 ....... FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday Sir Herbert Taylor transacted military business with the Duke of York, at Mr. Greenwood's villa at Brompton. The Royal Duke continues im proving towards recovery. On Monday afternoon his Royal Highness rode out in his close carriage, passed through St. James's Park, viewed the building fig his future residence, &c. Saturday Sir Henry HaFord, after attending the Duke of York and the Princess Augusta, left town for Oxford, in consequence of the decease of his bro ther, Dr. Vaughan, the Master of Merton College. The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Feodore visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. Her Royal Highness was better yesterday. The Princess Victoria paid a visit to her Royal Aunt on Monday.. • Last evening the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Feodore honoured the Italian Opera with their pre sence. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, in Downing street, which had been summoned to meet since Thursday last, by order of Mr. Secretary Canning. The Cabinet was fully attended, there being present the Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Harrowby, Liver pool, Westmoreland, and Bathurst, the Duke of Wel lington, Mr. Secretary. Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Melville, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Huskisson, and Lord Bexley. The Council continued in close deliberation up wards of three hours. The subject under discussion was supposed to be relative to foreign politics, in con sequence of the Cabinet having been summoned by Mr. Canning, and other circumstances. Some im portance was also attached to it from the numerous at tendance of the members, and the distance some of them travelled to be present. The Earl of Harrowby came out of Staffordshire, the Earl of Liverpool from Combe Wood, Surrey ; Mr. Peel from Broadatairs, near Ramsgate : Earl Bathurst from Stanmore, the seat of the Earl of Aberdeen ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer from Charlton, Kent ; Lord Bexley from Foot's Cray, Kent ; Lord Melville from Scotland, &c. Yesterday Lord Charles Somerset transacted busi ness with Earl Bathurst at the Colonial Office. Yesterday the Earl of Westmorland had a nume rous party to dinner at his house in Grosvenor-square. We have great pleasure in stating, that the reports which have been in circulation for some days, of the death of the Earl of Besborough, are untrue. His Lordship is at this time remarkably well, at his villa at Roehampton, and franks the answers to the letters of condolence which his family receive from their nu merous connections. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, with that ardent zeal for the promotion of useful science, which forms so prominent a trait in his character, has pre sented to the University of Gottingen, for their new Observatory, a transit clock, completed on the most improved principle by W. Hardy, who made a similar one for the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and for other public institutions at home and abroad. The illustrious Duke also is endeavouring to bring forward into public notice those artisans of merit in the chro nometer line, who are working in penury and obscu rity, while others are reaping the profit and fame of their ingenuity. Were these laudable pursuitsfollowed up by a few more of our distinguished patrons of the arts, it would greatly advance the talent and genius of the country. We understand that his Royal Highness has in his possession the first wood clock made by the celebrated Harrison. An entertainment will be given on Thursday next, at Goldsmiths' Hall, to His Majesty's Ministers.— Lord Maryborough, Lord Bexley, the Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, and other honorary members of the. company, are invited ; also several of the most distinguished members of both Houses of Parliament. ' The King of England is Master of the Goldsmith's Company, and a bust of his present Majesty, by Chan trey, ornaments their hall. Mr. Price, the American manager, has become the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, having taken the con tract off the hands of Mr. Bish, in consideration of receiving from the latter his deposit of 2,0001. The Committee signified, through Mr. Calcraft, their assent to this arrangement on Saturday evening. Mr. Price leaves London in a few days, for the United States, and will be back by the middle of October, to superintend the opening of Drury-lane. We wish him success ; but he must remember, he has to ad minister to a public taste somewhat more refined than that of the United States. . THE FRENCH GENDER STAUGHT IN SIX FABLES. —This is a simple and well digested Grammar, or rather accidence ; in which the puzzling peculiarities of the French Genders are reduced to comparative clearness. They are not, however, as the author's title page asserts, to be mastered in a few hours ; but, with diligence and attention may be thoroughly under stood in a week. The preface, which, by the way is not ill written, explains more fully the nature of the work ; to which we refer our readers, adding at the same time, a recommendation of our own, that whosoever procures this little treatise for the purposes of in formation, will find that it fully answers his most san guine expectations. The fair equestrian lady, J. P., in the ride on Sun day called Col. T- to shorten her rein. a How ever short J may make it," replied the witty and gallant Colonel, " your ladyship's reign will always be long." PHYSICIANS' FEES.--A very singular custom of the Burmese physicians is mentioned in the Modern Traveller—" If a young woman is dangerously ill, the doctor and her parentsfrequently enter in an agree ment, the doctor undertaking to cure her. If she lives, the doctor takes her as his property ; but if she dies, he pays her value to the parents ; for, in the Burman llominions, no parent parts with his daughter, whether to be wife, or a concubine, without a valuable consideration. Ido not know," adds Dr. Buchanan, " if the doctor may sell the girl again, or must retain her in his family ; but the number of fine young women which I saw in the house of a doctor at Mea day, makes me think the practice to be very common." BURMESE IGNORANCE OF EUROPEAN CUS TOMS.—The following anecdote is curious, as showing how utterly ignorant the Burmese are of tile customs of European warfare. In one of ,the recent actions with the enemy, a wounded Burmali was taken prisoner. His leg was so dreadfully shat tered, that amputation was absolutely necessary to save the man ' s life. The operation was accordi ng l y per formed by our sur g eons ; but, inste ad of being thankful leg (perfectly y sound) and h would be resum e d , an d w h en hi s for the hum a n it y thus shown him, he asked when the is arms were to be cut off'? thinking, no doubt, that th us t h e English in war were accustomed to treat their p r i soners taken ! othe work r o lgf mutilationoe LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY —(Tars DAT.) IN THE HATTER OF SOLARTE, A BANKRUPT. His Lordship stated, that he would now return Mr. Hunt's brief in this matter, which he had read. The ques tion was, whether there was any debt; and the solution of that question depended upon whether the transactions were tainted with usury, or not. If both sides were agreed as to the facts, the Court thought it would be putting the parties to unnecessary expence to go to trial upon an issue. Mr. Hart appeared for the Bankrupt, and his Client bad no beneficial interest in litigating the validity of the debt. His Lordship was aware of this; but a division on the question of usury might turn the certificate. It was a case something in its nature akin to ex-parte Grimstead, in the matter of Howard and Gibbs, k requiring th e d ec i s i on of this Court. Had this Court not undertaken the labo rious task of deciding the question m ex-parte Grinstead, in the matter of Howard and Gibbs, the parties might, and would have gone on for five or ten years longer, in a state of litigation at law. The question here lay in a narrow compass, because the facts seemed to be in a very narrow compass. The parties are to take this suggestion into consideration, and then mention the matter again to the Court. EX-PARTE GRIBISTEAD, IN Tat INATTXR. OR 110 WARD AND GIBBS, BANKRUPTS. His Lordship stated, he had turned over in his mind, not without great anxiety, what ought to be done in matter of costs, and he was now satisfied that he could not re fuse the costs. Mr. Hart, on behalf of Mr. Grinstead, hoped the Court would give at least an allowance of the costs that were incurred by Mr. G. in preparing to go to trial upon an action, and delivering his briefs, when the very day be fore the trial, came to this Court to have the action changed to an issue. Mi. Horne opposed this. The alteration consisted only of one word; and the very same briefs were delivered with the alteration of that one word. His Lordship thought this did not alter the necessity of giving costs as against Mr. G. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. CONST e. HARRIS. His Lordship had read the papers in this case, and will mention it again when he c.omesinto court to-morrow. If this court. was to administer, in the nature of trust, the affairs of Covent Garden Theatre, it did appear to his Lordship, that the gentlemen who belonged to that theatre, receiver and all, would have to be treated exactly as if the property were real estate. But the Court was extremely puzzled, with respect to the decree the Vice- Chancellor had made in the cause. Mr. Hart said, that his Honor's decree was contended against, on the ground that it was not co-extensive with the relief the party was entitled to, if he were entitled to any at all. Mr. Sugden, appearing for Mr. Harris, said, the Gentle- men on the other side hurried on the case in such a way in the Court below, that it was impossible a satisfactory decree to any party could have been made. They would not allow the cause to stand till the cross cause could be heard. Mr. Hart believed the decree to be under an appeal. His Lordship doubted whether the directions contained in the decree would not affect the orders made in the cause by this branch of the Court, with respect to the receiver's payments. HoWeyer, it was impossible the Court could permit the thing to go on as it had been going on, but his Lordship will express himself more fully to-morrow. BANKRUPTS' ALLOWANCE. His Lordship said there was another matter which, when the Counsel in it came into Court, he would dispose of. The question was, what a bankrupt was entitled to as a matter of allowance, regard being had to the A c t o f Parliament, that re g ul a t e d a bankrupt's allowance prior to the passing of the last Act on that subject, and also regard being had to the last Act. The opinion of the Court was, that the last Act did not affect the quantum of allowance at all, if the right to the allowance vested, before the passing of the last Act of Parliament. IVlL — Sugden believed that this point had been decided, and decided in the same way by his Honour the Vice- Chancellor. • His Lordship so understood it.: . MELLISH V. MELLISH. His Lordship considered, regard being had to the na. tura of the case, and regard being had to the fitct, that. the order in this case, appealed against, was► only his own judgment, that he ought to call upon Mr. Mellish to give security for returning the half of the sum in Court, upon his being allowed to receive it, provided the Rouse of Lords should order it back. Mr. Shadwell then submitted that Mr. Mellish would have to go into the Master's Office, and give a satisfactory security. His Lordship said he would pen the order with his own hand, and deliver it out in the course of to-day or to morrow. CRAWSHAY V. COLLINE.......BROWN V. DE JASTZT. Mr. Heald said the case of Crawshay v. Collins stood to be spoken to to-day; he was one of the Counsel to speak to it, but the case was so old, and it was so long since he had received his brief in it, that he had. to beg the indul gence of the Court to let it stand over till Friday. Mr. Hart did not object, provided it was to be under stood to come on peremptorily on that day. His Lordship then ordered it to stand peremptorily for Friday ; and that as Brown v. de Jastet, in a measure, was connected with it, and was also in the paper of to-day, it would have to stand over till Friday also. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. (Tnis DAY.) Joseph Scott, alias Kingsbury, was charged with steal ing a piece of silk, value 20s. from the shop of Mr. Ford, Southampton-street. Yesterday morning the' prisoner enquired the price of some silks, and shortly after his leaving, the shopman missed the piece in question. lie immediately went round to the pawnbrokers in the neighbourhood, and the prisoner was shortly afterwards stopped at the shop of Mr. Newby, pawnbroker, Broad court, Drury-lane, where he was offering to pledge the silk.—He was fully committed. HATTON-GARDEN.- 7 (Tuts DAY.) OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT....-Stadorta s /I and Read, the two pugilists, were brought from the watch-house of Saffron hill, charged with an assault at the house of Mr. Davis, landlord of the Bricklayer? Arms, Saffron-hill. Mr. ROGERS said he had never heard of a more grows or outrageous ease of assault on a man in his own house, and on an Officer in discharge of his duty. He should require them to give 48 hour's notice of good bail MARLBOROUGH-STREET—(Tms DAY.) A poor woman, named Gauz e , a pauper of St. George's Parish, applied for th e M ag i strates ' assistance. She stated that she had two children lying dead, one of whom died 10, and the other 4 days ago: a coffin had been given her by a friend for the first, but the parish refused to bury them, unless in the parish coffins. The child had been screwed down since Friday, and could not now be removed. The Magistrate advised her to make another applitv tion to the Overseers, and if they refused he would give her every assistance. On account of the shortness of the crop, a number of the members of the East Lothian Agricultural , SGeietY have resolved not to allow the use of scyt he hooks this season; it is therefore requested that all sh earers will su pp l y themselves with the teethed ones.--Ediaburo Courant. The 17th Foot, at present q uartered in Edinburgh Castle and in Paisley, are to embark early next week at Greenock for Liverpool, whetter it is expected they will march to 'Manchester. The depot of the 42d is to be sta.. tionedat Paisley.—,E(Naborg4 Courant. t it